This enrages me.
The UN is attempting to move the considerable
mountainof illegal guns and the illegal gun trade. From a progressive point of view, an extremely noble task. There are simply too many cases of uprisings, sustained militia warfare and simple everyday murder. I'd have thought it was a no-brainer. The less illegal guns around, should equate to less deaths.
However, that ideal hasn't accounted for the NRA. The National Rifle Association, has taken umbrage at the idea sending 100,000 letters to the man responsible claiming the UN is doing nothing other than attemping to take away their member's guns.
Yes. Its aaaaalllll about the American gun owner.
One could stoop down to the levels of many right wingers who are capable of the most amazing binary thought coupled with gigantic leaps of logic and say that by opposing the UN program, the NRA are PRO-murder and PRO-illegal weaponry. But I won't.
Part of the key misunderstanding must be related to that weird word 'illicit'. Unless the NRA generally supports the ownership of illegal guns, and laws managing them, it really doesn't affect a single member of the NRA.
Some of the miscommunication the NRA is propagating includes 'illicit' but tends to ignore its actual meaning. Examples
here&
here(Previous UN review). The NRA sponsored
web site about the topic has this to say on its front page:
...These dictatorships, terrorist states and so-called "free" nations of the world plan to meet on our home soil to finalize a U.N. treaty that would strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection, and strip you of your rights under the Second Amendment.
Why does the NRA equate this program with taking their guns? Why do they believe that having gun laws in
other countries will affect their ability to buy weapons? I've asked the question of the NRA, but I don't expect an answer.
How many people around the world should die as a result of a massive propaganda drive by the NRA deliberately misinforming its members before we say enough?
Should we set up a counter-site to email the NRA asking them to stop this ludicrous propaganda drive?